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Diablo III |OT4| Antiques Roadshow: Sanctuary Edition
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GhostRidah
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4 more hours
1.0.2.9991
Check your region options then, seems like it might have switched to the americas.
Aww whats wrong? Your friend can't bot anymore? I'm playing the world's smallest fucking violin right now.
Good fucking riddance.
Woo-Fu
Banned
At first glance the chest MF nerf looks like a blow to pony farming.
After further thought though, pony land still looks awesome.
1. Act 4 drop rates (whimseyshire still on act IV tables, right?).
2. Easy mobs, no ranged attackers.
3. 1/3 of the packs easily glitched due to pathing (which may or may not be fixed)
4. The level has nice little deadends for dropping a pack of elites with a prefix not worth your time(jailer+mortar+desecration+teleporter being one I HATE as a Witch Doctor).
Build your NV stack in ez-mode Act 1---with a small chance for good gear---take it to ponyland for a much better chance.
After further thought though, pony land still looks awesome.
1. Act 4 drop rates (whimseyshire still on act IV tables, right?).
2. Easy mobs, no ranged attackers.
3. 1/3 of the packs easily glitched due to pathing (which may or may not be fixed)
4. The level has nice little deadends for dropping a pack of elites with a prefix not worth your time(jailer+mortar+desecration+teleporter being one I HATE as a Witch Doctor).
Build your NV stack in ez-mode Act 1---with a small chance for good gear---take it to ponyland for a much better chance.
Haha, actually didn't think of that. Man he's fucked.
Still a shitty change, really really makes MF gear kinda useless. Hitting a random pot and seeing a rare pop out was always awesome.
Yup. This is what I will be doing outside of Act 4 runs.
Nah, just less useful - still works on mobs! I hated having to worry about hitting every little pot too, made me super OCD. This also screws bots - so win win.
Mr. Luchador
Member
In the game, go to options. it's the top option which lets you pick your region.
OCD is not a negative, I love hitting everything.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Curses. I can't get into the game as it tells me I need a patch... DAMN YOU CATCH 22!
Stun works on elites and bosses (at least it worked on Siege Breaker). I don't know if it's for the same duration though.
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Siegebreaker
General
Overall damage has been reduced
No longer vulnerable to Confuse and Charm effects
Will now drop a health globe every 25% health mark (i.e. at 75%, 50%, and 25% health)
Now enrages after 4 minutes
In Inferno difficulty, Siegebreaker will now gain the Reflects Damage affix
What. The. Fuck. Absolute bullshit. Does no one at Blizzard play a wizard? I mean, boss farming is probably not going to be as big a deal anymore, but it looks like a guarantee that I won't be farming Siegebreaker anymore.
General
Overall damage has been reduced
No longer vulnerable to Confuse and Charm effects
Will now drop a health globe every 25% health mark (i.e. at 75%, 50%, and 25% health)
Now enrages after 4 minutes
In Inferno difficulty, Siegebreaker will now gain the Reflects Damage affix
What. The. Fuck. Absolute bullshit. Does no one at Blizzard play a wizard? I mean, boss farming is probably not going to be as big a deal anymore, but it looks like a guarantee that I won't be farming Siegebreaker anymore.
-Pyromaniac-
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It goes up when the servers are back up.
edit: In about 3 1/2 more hours
jesus, I'm gonna go through withdrawals.
1.0.2.9991
Options > Account.
The whole global play thing is a huge pain in the ass with the separate regions and patch days, the region constantly changes by itself, loads of people got given the wrong clients etc. It's the worst aspect of the game for me in terms of decisions they made.
I have two clients installed on my computer in case I want to play on the european server around patch day.
What I'm gearing my Wizard for.
And then my DH.
And then my Monk.
And then my Barb.
I guess eventually my WD too.
...fuck, I'll never actually get all that gearing done.
Reduced, I believe. It still flinches at the least so it'll forever be useful for that.
Get better Armor/Resists; Reflect Damage is a percent of damage dealt that is then mitigated. If you do 60k DPS and you have 3150 Armor/315 Resists, you should only take back around 3000 DPS worth of damage per target. Some Life on Hit and Life per Second regen will more than make up for it.
Anything you can attack and explodes that is not an enemy.
Chests do not count as destructible objects.
I thought destructible objects were like gravestones and stuff that can't be targeted but will be destroyed if hit with a weapon.
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Deleted member 17706
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I suppose that's true. I've long since accepted the fact that this is not a true successor to the original games and have learned to enjoy Diablo III for what it is. It feels very different from the first two games, but I still think it's a great game.
That includes ashes, vases, barrels, skull baskets etc. so the answer to his question is yes. No loot from any of these.
Mr. Luchador
Member
uh at most i expect i'll be doing 12-20k dps. like that makes a difference? not when you have 50k hp
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
I have 6k armor/300 resists and cut my DPS from 70K to 40K using a life steal/life on hit weapon just to keep venom hydra from killing me in 10 seconds.
Then again, that's usually on packs, with one target it may not be so bad. I still think reflect damage is some underlooked bullshit because hydra damage is reflected, but you don't get life on hit or life steal from them.
Fenderputty
Banned
I'm 50/50 on it. I'm trying to get my wife into the game because she loves exploring every nook and cranny and busting up every barrel and basket.
The obsessive person in my loves it as well.
On the other hand, I like that it forces people to focus on killing things.
Fuck that, I don't bot or support/condone/like botting or automation in general, but I still think this is a shitty shitty shitty change. It's the old case of one bad apple spoils the bunch. Everyone who abides by the rules gets punished because apparently there is no other solution to the "actual issue". Destructible objects dropping loot was never the issue.
Yeah, I know that part of it works, and it interrupts attacks. I was just wondering what the reduced duration might be, because if you got your crit chance way up that might be pretty darned devastating.
To them it was the issue. They don't really want legit players thinking that's the best rout for loot, either. They've stated quite a few times they want end game to be running through elites and stacking NV, not breaking pots and stuff like that.
For what it's worth, Hydra ignores Life on Hit :x And depending on what spells you're using, you're not getting that much Life on Hit from those either.
Diamond Skin is worth a thought as well. It scales really well with mitigation in general.
Edit: I do agree that Reflect Damage is annoying for a Wizard
DHs can Shadow Power/NT it to a point (not that enough people gear that route) but Wizard is mostly gearing LPS to offset it or using Diamond Skin. Thankfully, Diamond Skin gets better for the tankier builds so it's useful again in Inferno but ... still.Yeah I know. I was the only one in my group of friends that would hit every barrel and item. I mean, why not? Easiest way to get gold at least. Just takes a second. At least now, I won't have to do every single one, and I can do my runs faster.
The one that baffles me is chests not being affected. At least keep that in.
You can change it at the login screen.
-Pyromaniac-
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So for Demon Hunters currently using Nether Tentacles, what are you going to do post nerf? Continue using? Use lightning instead? Something else?
It was like my go to thing.
It was like my go to thing.
And most skills scale better than 1:1 for damage so the "only 12k DPS" is a little misleading. And Life on Hit scales really poorly with many Barb skills in general.
toastyToast
Member
I'm liking the sound of the changes overall.
Someone mentioned earlier that monks being able to use all weapons excluding the obvious ones as a buff. Why is that?
Won't a lot of people just switch to daggers/fists with IAS neutered?
Someone mentioned earlier that monks being able to use all weapons excluding the obvious ones as a buff. Why is that?
Won't a lot of people just switch to daggers/fists with IAS neutered?
Daibos needed competition for "Weapons I'll never actually use."
Honestly? I think it's so that at least some class can use the +DEX rolls on Two Handers. Even if no Monk would most likely go for a Two Hander any time soon.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Goddamnit I have the worst luck with this game.
I'm 26 years old and don't get to play Diablo 3 a fraction of the time that I used to put into its predecessors and this is like the third time since launch where I've been like, "Hey, I got nearly a full day with nothing to do tomorrow, that'd be a good time to play Diab~SERVER IS DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE LOL WILL BE BACK UP JUST IN TIME FOR YOU TO HEAD TO WORK. DICK."
Ugh.
I'm 26 years old and don't get to play Diablo 3 a fraction of the time that I used to put into its predecessors and this is like the third time since launch where I've been like, "Hey, I got nearly a full day with nothing to do tomorrow, that'd be a good time to play Diab~SERVER IS DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE LOL WILL BE BACK UP JUST IN TIME FOR YOU TO HEAD TO WORK. DICK."
Ugh.
arts&crafts
Member
Is this the patch where new legendaries will be good and not have pointless stats on them? I didn't see it mentioned in the patch notes.
No, that's 1.1.
Soon, they'll talk about how they're going to make legendaries better - I think it's going to be more than a higher roll range, they seem like they have some creative ideas.
Ideally they have stuff like "Monk: Vortex can have 1 additional stack" or something for a set bonus. That kind of stuff seems like it could really make characters play really differently depending on the gear they have.
So even if we like to do other things they'll continue to eliminate them until our playstyle meets their vision.
fierrotlepou
Member
Why does Blizzard say that 1.0.3 is live in Europe? It isn't...
Pretty much. I more than welcome not having to loot every corpse and break every barrel I come across on my run. I usually get crap anyway, but those few times that a rare spat out were an endorphin injection.
But chests on the other hand, especially resplendent chests, should still factor our MF. If they're worried about botters farming resplendents, like they had once done with the Keep waypoint abuse, Blizzard could mimic Zelda games and simply make resplendent chests locked until you kill a unique or elite pack, found on that same floor, which would drop the key.
A couple of my legendaries came from objects in the environment. Kinda sad to see it go, but I guess the botting was getting out of hand. Maybe they're trying to keep it from becoming as rampant as D2, but I'm not sure they'll be successful. They'll just keep removing shit for everyone else because of dumbass botters. Wish they'd get on top of the AH bots.
arts&crafts
Member
Yea that would definitely be a lot more cool than +200 int on your monk item. That being said, if they don't fix the tal rash set bonuses I am going to do something crazy.
This is actually pretty interesting, because at first thought based on the tool tip, it essentially reads as a Lightning Ball with a Life Steal, but once people realized that it hit multiple times it was definitely the go to ability. I don't doubt that it actually was a bug or unintended feature of the ability. I don't understand why it took them so long to make the change. This one should have been done the same time as smoke screen if that is the case.
It's like they tried with the +Skill bonuses but forgot how to actually make them relevant.
+9% Damage isn't that bad. Well, it is if you consider you can get +6% on a single slot via a Legendary but it's not that bad!
...if only the set itself was better.
That's part of making a good game, if they worry that something like running around farming pots will dilute the experience (which I can understand), and eventually lead players away - they have to nip it in the bud.
That's exactly how I felt about +skill bonuses.
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